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UNIT-I INTRODUCATION
PART-A
1. Define production planning and control.
Direction and coordination of firm’s resources towards attaining the prefixed goals.
8. What is specialization?
It is a process where in particular firms concentrate on the manufacture of limited number of
product types.
Part-B
1. What do you understand by production planning and control? Discuss its main elements.
2. Enumerates the activities involved in the production planning and control function under the
Convenient points.
3. Explain different types of production systems. Differentiate between them
4. Explain the functional and operational aspects of product design.
5. Explain in detail the production aspects of product design.
UNIT –II WORK STUDY
PART-A
PART-B
1. Explain briefly the various steps involved in conducting the work study.
2. State and explain in brief the steps involved in conducting the method study
procedure.
3. Briefly explain the various techniques of work measurement.
4. Define time study. List down the various steps in conducting a stopwatch time study.
5. Explain the following terms
a) Work sampling b) Synthetic data c) PMTS
UNIT-III (PRODUCT PLANNING AND PROCESS PLANNING)
Part-A
5. Define process
It is defined as any group of actions instrumental to the achievement of the output of an
operations system in accordance with a specified measure of effectiveness.
1. What is value analysis? Describe the basic steps involved in the value analysis.
2. Explain the importance of process planning with reference to production control. Discuss the
activities in process planning
3. Compare and contrast the manual process planning with CAPP
4. What is meant by machine loading? Also enumerate the various methods to the cycle time to a
minimum
5. What do you mean by machine balancing? Also explain the effect of balancing on number of
machines required with an illustration.
6. Write short notes on analysis of process capacities in a multiproduct system.
Unit-IV (Production scheduling)
Part-A
1. What is loading?
It is defined as the assignment of work to a facility. The facility may be men, machine, a
Department, a group of men, group of machines of a plant.
2. What is scheduling?
It is time phasing of loading. It is defined as the assignment of work to a facility specifying
the particular sequence of the work and the time of actual performance.
6. What is demand?
It is the number of items required per unit of time. The demand may be either deterministic or
probabilistic in nature.
PART-B
1. What do you understand by inventory control? Explain the purpose of maintaining inventory in any
production unit
2. What is EOQ? Derive the expression for EOQ when the demand of the item is uniform, the
production rate is infinite and no stock-outs are allowed
3.a) Explain the terms: lead time, stock out, buffer stock, inventory carrying cost
b) Distinguish between in-process inventory, safety stock inventory and seasonal inventory
4.Describe the fixed period quantity inventory model? Also compare and contrast P-system with
Q-system
5.What is selective control of inventory and explain various selective control techniques.
6. What is ABC analysis? Explain its significance in the inventory control with suitable example.